On school tour, Newtown parents thank teachers

Former middle school being renamed Sandy Hook.

By DAVE COLLINS
and PAT EATON-ROBB
Associated Press

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MONROE, Conn. - On a tour Wednesday of his daughter's new school, Vinny Alvarez took a moment to thank her third-grade teacher, who protected the class from a rampaging gunman by locking her classroom door and keeping the children in a corner.

Alvarez was one of many Sandy Hook Elementary School parents expressing gratitude to the teachers during an open house at their school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where their children are resuming classes today for the first time since the Dec. 14 shooting that left 20 students and six educators dead.

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Members of the media pick up a CD containing recordings of 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The CDs were released Wednesday in Danbury, Conn.
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